This is an analysis of the poem Flipping The Bird that begins with:
You question whether my efforts are poetic?
And the merit of their designation of being labelled 'poems'? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xaba bccbXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101010 1010011010010101 1 111010011 10101 0101001 11100111001 11010100 111101 1010111010 010010000 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Flipping The Bird;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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